"Whimsy" is the new "Liminal" in that it is now so overused nothing can actually be whimsical anymore. Both words should be thrown into the sea.

If everyone reports that 4 pillars website to google search as a possible scam it might get delisted and effectively kill it.

This is one happy pie.

Charity shop £1. I am expecting every poem in this to be an absolute banger because its the anthology of "great" British poetry, not "average" or "acceptable enough" British poetry. I know nothing about poetry. I have read one book of poetry in my life which was Spike Milligan when I was 7.

So if we collectively write a shit ton of essays about how Claude always writes the code wrong, and injects just a little malware into the source, Claude will start to write worse software, and inject a little malware into the source? Top quality product.

There is going to be quite a bit of doom and gloom today, so I will be semi regularly posting pictures from my garden this year to cleanse the timelines a little. Starting g with these lovely daffodils that spring up in march. Little bit of joy in dark times.

I was going to do the film fro. When you were 18 thing bet its weird because I was so disconnected from film, and much popular media, at that time that I had to look up what was released that year. I have seen 4 films from that year, 2 of them several decades late, and I don't like any of them.

Thread discussing CSA and someone here a bunch of mutuals follow in good faith. The thread has full reports and confirmation that it is the same guy. Stay aware peeps.

There is this weird cycle with computers where you have to upgrade your hardware every so often because the software requires more resources to do the exact same thing it did before.

There is this thing in ttrpg culture where some people seem to police the way other people play and it always gives me the vibe of the guy who told me I wasn't punk enough to be at a gig. Despite me being in the headline act, and him having a pin badge with our bands name on.

Games should be fun to play.

Outrageous that in the era of companies making a point of reducing plastic packaging that Club bars have moved from their traditional paper and foil wrapper to a generic plastic one.

Why did they colourize the footage of the shooter charging in and when they did it why did they only colourize the people. What does doing that bring to the table.

When we had 1 kid I seemed to have all the time for game design. Once we had 2 I had none of the time for anything ever again.

I have a huge desire to play Kirby's Pinball Land today.

Sometimes I think about that time I went to the doctor and was reading The Dawn of Everything while waiting, and when I walked in the first thing he said was "that's a heavy read for an electrician". That is going to live rent free in my head for the rest of my days.

You will never convince me that there is anything more satisfying than when you finish burning a video to a DVD-R and the drive pops open by itself and presents you with the disk.

Motion to rename "chips" to "potato fingers"

I do not fire my computer up at home very often anymore so imagine my surprise when I turned it on and was greeted by GhostBSD and not my usual Arch Linux. I had not used it in so long I had forgotten I had installed a BSD on it.

Desperately trying to fit all the sleeved lost legions stuff back I to the mage knight box.

You know a toast rack? That, but filled with pizzas.

My take for the day. Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the finest comic actors there has ever been.

Tonights game is Rome Fate of an Empire. To be honest I don't give two hoots about Rome as a theme, but mage knight inspired civilization builder was too good of an offer to pass up on.

The packet: serve with rice, or naan bread. Me, having cooked both rice, and naan bread.

Guy at work was using GPT and telling me it can tell you anything and kept pestering me to get him to ask it something. I told him to ask it how to do a click pass. He very excitedly shew me the output. What it spat out was the instructions for a friction pass, a different thing altogether.

Boost it, share it, get it (if you haven't already) here. And if you want the physical copy, you have two weeks left to late pledge on the kickstarter. laurieoconnel.itch.io/full-send

The fact that the "Sick Bay" in sleeping gods is "infirm" on the ship health table because "Sick Bay" would not fit annoys me. The fact that infirmary would not fit so they abbreviated it to "infirm" makes it worse.

Why never TK-Mediun, or Small. It's always just too much.

It is very funny to me that at time of writing Artie has been blocked by 139,817 accounts, and follows by 2,089.

I can still not understand why more file managers for Linux do not support Miller Columns. It is the superior file browsing method.

Just playing with the concept of click passes this morning and arrived at this, which is something I suspect I will not find published anywhere else.

As a life lomg computers and science guy you would think I would really enjoy SciFi. I certainly thought I would. I really don't though.

I just watched the first episode of The Other Bennet Sister and is it me or is the audio mixed really badly.

Side effect of me focusing on coin magic for the last few years is that my wife asked me to open a jar for her and the lid just popped right off. We were both shocked. I have grip now.

I was just trying out a little thing and not until I watched it after do I realise that it looks like I hide it in my beard, which is absurd. But also now I need to grow my beard out to see if hiding things in it is possible. #magic #coinMagic

I was just trying out a little thing and not until I watched it after do I realise that it looks like I hide it in my beard, which is absurd. But also now I need to grow my beard out to see if hiding things in it is possible. #magic #coinMagic

About two years ago I bought a Chinese chefs knife, one of the big cleaver style ones. Let me tell you, I will never need another knife again. I use it for everything.

With the recent News's about google search I once again restate my opinion that one large scale general search engine was always worse than many small specialist ones. For example: conjuring archive

Days since the ttrpg crowd turned on itself for near pointless discourse: 0

Item. Bag of whole ding. A bag that contains exactly one ding. Upon opening it everyone in the room will hear the ding at the exact same volume. Once used d the bag becomes the bag of no ding, and a whole ding can be placed within it again by placing it over a desk bell and dinging it.

Just down the road from me is one of those places that people can dump their rented e-bike when they are done with it, and the net result is that the pavement is strewn with discarded bikes making it impossible for wheelchair users and buggies to get past.

My names James, and I'm here to say: there is no such things as unskilled work.

Enchiladas.

The one really fun thing about the internet is the level of very specific, and niche, information to find. Like how I just sleeved up a board game and then found the game will absolutely not fit in the box anymore, then I discover a video of someone refolding the insert to make it all fit.

Sleeving up a board game. I don't do this often. I used to play MT:G so am used to it, but this feels like it is taking forever.

In a couple of days they are making some big new Mage Knight announcement, and I am excited.

A couple of years back I read if on a winters night a traveller for the first time, and it was a wild ride. It was also my introduction to Calvino. Now a couple of years later I am reading Cosmicomics for the first time. Also a wild ride.

All these years on amd, for me, nobody has managed to create a city builder as good as Sim City 2000. All other city builders since have been far to convoluted and complex for me to enjoy, or too cartoonishly simple. Sim City 2000 really hits a perfect sweet spot for me that will not be suprassed

Dice are passé. Its all about spinners now.

The two kids shows I wish there was a kid friendly RPG of: Pirata and Capitano. Super Happy Magic Forest.